Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 13
It invited the keeper of the gate to eat honey, and while the muishond was enjoying himself the inkalimeva went in and stole all the fat.
Who acts: kraal, muishond · What happens: invite, eat, enjoy, go in, steal · To what, where: keeper, honey, muishond, fat
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kraal, muishond), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 invited | nsubj |
| 2 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 keeper | det |
| 4 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 invited | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeper | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 invited | advcl |
| 10 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 enjoying | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 muishond | det |
| 15 | muishond | muishond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enjoying | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 enjoying | aux |
| 17 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 went | advcl |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 enjoying | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 inkalimeva | det |
| 20 | inkalimeva | inkalimeva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enjoying | obj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 invited | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stole | cc |
| 24 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 fat | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fat | det |
| 27 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stole | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | kraal | the keeper of the gate | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keeper=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | kraal not said here | honey | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | past · progressive | the muishond | muishond | the inkalimeva obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go in | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | steal | past | all fat | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fat=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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